On: Technical Debt Doesn’t Exist

[OldHand2018]

Where I work, "technical debt" is a term used by the project management folks whenever they are looking for justification for forcing developers to do something that everyone knows is a bad idea.

No worries, we'll come back to it when we have more time (we never have more time).

[Viliam1234 → OldHand2018]

> No worries, we'll come back to it when we have more time (we never have more time).

There are only two priorities: priority one, and priority "we will actually never do this, because always something else will be priority one".

But of course, if it makes the engineers happy, we can put "fixing technical debt" in Jira, and assign it any priority between 2 and 99.